Enhancement of flow-like structures in hyperspectral imagery using tensor nonlinear anisotropic diffusion

Maider Marin-McGee; Miguel Velez-Reyes

doi:10.1117/12.885645

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20 May 2011 Enhancement of flow-like structures in hyperspectral imagery using tensor nonlinear anisotropic diffusion

Maider Marin-McGee, Miguel Velez-Reyes

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Proceedings Volume 8048, Algorithms and Technologies for Multispectral, Hyperspectral, and Ultraspectral Imagery XVII; 80480E (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.885645
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2011, Orlando, Florida, United States

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Analyzing flow-like patterns in images for image understanding is an active research area but there have been much less attention paid to the process of enhancement of those structures. The completion of interrupted lines or the enhancement of flow-like structures is known as Coherence-Enhancement (CE). In this work, we are studying nonlinear anisotropic diffusion filtering for coherence enhancement. Anisotropic diffusion is commonly used for edge enhancement by inhibiting diffusion in the direction of highest spatial fluctuation. For CE, diffusion is promoted along the direction of lowest spatial fluctuation in a neighborhood thereby taking into account how strongly the local gradient of the structures in the image is biased towards that direction. Results of CE applied multispectral and hyperspectral images are presented.

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Maider Marin-McGee and Miguel Velez-Reyes "Enhancement of flow-like structures in hyperspectral imagery using tensor nonlinear anisotropic diffusion", Proc. SPIE 8048, Algorithms and Technologies for Multispectral, Hyperspectral, and Ultraspectral Imagery XVII, 80480E (20 May 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.885645

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